SHEAR Announces the Inaugural Class of Recipients for its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellowships

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is pleased to announce the inaugural class of recipients for its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellowships.  This fellowship comes with a cash prize to support research expenses as well as in-kind support so that recipients can present their work at SHEAR’s 2023 conference in Philadelphia.  The work of these scholars will open new avenues and perspectives in the study of the early republic.

Tanner Allread

Tanner Allread is a fourth-year joint J.D./Ph.D. in History candidate at Stanford University. His research focuses on nineteenth-century Native American history and the history of Federal Indian Law. Tanner’s current research project, tentatively titled “Anomalous Empires: Indigenous Governance and Indian Removal, 1817-1838,” seeks to reframe the narrative of southern Indian removal as a widespread assault on Indigenous sovereignty in addition to being a forced emigration of Indigenous people. This work aims to demonstrate how Native nations utilized constitutionalism and tribal state-building projects to assert their sovereignty and how those actions impacted the jurisdictional maze that Indigenous peoples were forced to navigate as well as wider debates over sovereignty and federalism in the early republic. In addition to his historical work, he has assisted tribes with numerous legal matters, working for the law firm of Kanji & Katzen, P.L.L.C., and the Yurok Tribe’s Office of the Tribal Attorney. He is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.